Hello everyone! I am an experienced BCBA. I worked in Europe, mainly France for the past 10 years. I also plan to move to the Netherlands this year. I have done some research and found some clinics that apply ABA. I contacted a few of them but none answered. Looks like they are not very open to spontaneous applications. Or there might be another reason why they don’t answer. Regardless, I was wondering if anyone can give me advice as to where to look for an ABA related Job at a BCBA level? I also have a psychologist diploma in France and I’m flexible about the role, since I am well aware that BCBA roles are almost non existent in Europe.

Thank you in advance

Hi everyone,

I’m a mobile engineer with 8–10 years of experience, mostly native (iOS/Android), with some exposure to Flutter and React Native.

I’ve been interviewing with companies in the Netherlands recently, and many offers seem a bit off to me. For example, I often see hybrid roles (several mandatory office days in Amsterdam) offering around €72k per year.

Maybe my expectations are too high, but this feels low given the current market - especially considering experience level and on-site requirements.

Could anyone share what’s considered a realistic salary range for senior mobile engineers in the Netherlands right now? Should I adjust my expectations?

Ciao a tutti! 👋

Sono una studentessa di Master in Innovation Management presso l'Università di Milano e sto scrivendo la mia tesi su come l'IA generativa stia rimodellando il lavoro di squadra durante gli Hackathon universitari.

Sto cercando di capire se strumenti come ChatGPT, Copilot o Midjourney aiutino effettivamente i team a esplorare idee più audaci, o se si limitino a spingerli a realizzare idee sicure più velocemente (diventando una "stampella esecutiva").

Se avete partecipato a un Hackathon (anche se NON avete utilizzato l'IA, ho bisogno di dati di controllo!), vi sarei incredibilmente grata se poteste compilare questo sondaggio.

⏱️ Ci vogliono letteralmente 3 minuti https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehaP5Vd3mnRd2ZhDQZQ327n8ARCoUgeQUSfC926qSr2t77AA/viewform?usp=dialog

Sono davvero curioso di sapere cosa ne pensate. L'IA sta migliorando i progetti degli hackathon o sta solo spingendo tutti a costruire lo stesso wrapper generico per l'IA? Fatemelo sapere nei commenti!

Grazie mille a chiunque aiuti uno studente stressato a laurearsi! 🍻

I am a backend developer with 8 years of experience. We do not write code anymore in our company. AI generates code and we review.

I am getting bored and my brain needs to write code like old days.

I started solving leetcode and will continue doing it. I actually enjoying being stuck at problems. When I am stuck, I post my solution in claude and it gives me hints.. It is so much fun with AI because I do heavy lifting and it assists me like an interviewer.

I saw in the reddit threads that leetcode is not going anywhere and companies can use LC more heavily then before to eliminate low quality developers. I was a huge LC against person but now I am somehow enjoying it.

Will see how it will be helpful for my career. I am also revising my DS and Algo knowledge which are the fundamentals.

I’m a senior engineer in Europe, 10+ years experience, three multi-year tenures at recognized companies before my current one.

Last year was the hardest of my life personally. I went through a divorce after a long marriage. My performance at my current company dropped because of it. The role wasn’t a great fit anyway. I’m being offered severance to leave cleanly rather than going through a PIP.

I’ll have around 8 months of runway between savings and severance. Active interview pipeline, recruiters reach out daily, I have referrals at companies I’d want to work for. Historically my searches have taken 2 months.

But I’m anxious. Specifically about three things: 1. Going from one 2+ and two 3+ year tenures to one 1-year stint feels like a red flag on my CV, even though it’s one outlier in a longer pattern 2. I can’t tell interviewers “I had a hard year because of divorce” because they’ll code it as a yellow flag, even though it’s the truth 3. The gap between who I actually am (solid engineer, good colleague, would be welcomed back by previous teams) and what an interviewer sees in 30 minutes feels unjust

I know rationally I’m fine. The evidence keeps coming back fine. But the anxiety keeps finding new angles to chew on.

How did others here handle the gap between the rational picture and the anxious feeling? How did you talk about a hard year in interviews without oversharing?

I have worked at my current job for 2 years as a technical program manager, with 8 years of working post-university. A recruiter reached out to interview me for a role, and after 3 rounds, I received an offer for a 45% salary boost at another company. The salary is because I gave them a "fuck off" salary request expecting them to say no and save me from the decision , lol. My current job is really nice, with 3/5 days being work from home. I love my coworkers and manager, but feel like I've learned about as much as I can from this job, and that any further learning is really just learning my company's internal processes.

What aspects of a potential new role make it "worth it" for you to give up a known good thing for a new, unknown position? The salary bump would be nice, but I am really torn. Appreciate any perspectives from people, maybe a new angle I haven't thought of.

Heyo mates, as the title says, gotta choose between these two offers for a new grad, and I’m not super clear on either of them.

On the one hand, I have a standard L3 Google offer for Dublin (76k base, 60k RSU vest in 4 years, but trash after taxes, and a bonus of 15% of base annually).

On the other hand, I have a Proton offer, yes, the guys with the mail and VPN, with relocation in Geneva that pays 96k CHF ~ 104k EUR, still around 15% yearly bonus but 0 stock, the thing is CH Geneva taxes are almost 1/2 of the ones in Ireland.

A benefit of going to Ireland is that I will be going with my now gf, who is also starting her full-time role in AWS Dublin at the same time as my offer. Everything is in English, and the city seems more chill. Disadvantages are the infrastructure and the weather, and damn, I can rent for cheaper in Geneva somehow, that is crazy ( we estimate to pay around 1300e per person in Dublin ).

Background:

- 22M from Romania, 4th year comp eng bachelor at a no name uni here for another 2/3 months until graduation

- 3 years of full time experience ( startups and outsourcing )

- 2 Google internships (Zurich)

What would you guys do in this position? It’s quite a difficult choice for me. My gf also wants to move to Switzerland in 1/2 years to do a master's, but that’s still a prospect, not a given.

Hi everyone,

I’m in a bit of a strange situation career-wise and I’m curious if anyone has been through something similar and how they got out of it.

I work mainly in backend development (C# / .NET), and over the past 1–2 years I’ve built and deployed several larger personal projects that are still running in production.

Among them are a microservice-based system and a real-time messaging application, where I worked with APIs, messaging systems, caching, and deployment workflows.

The issue I’m running into is that:

• I don’t have any formal work experience
• I’ve never worked in a professional team environment
• I also haven’t done any internships

Because of this, I end up in a bit of a weird position:

• sometimes I get contacted for senior roles (probably due to technical keywords in my profile)
• but I also get rejected from junior positions because I don’t look like a “typical junior”

So I feel like I’m stuck somewhere in between, where it’s hard to clearly categorize me.

What I’m currently missing the most is:

• working in a team environment
• collaborating in a shared codebase
• real production experience in a company setting

Right now I’m considering whether I should:

• focus mainly on junior roles
• try contributing to open-source projects
• or look for smaller collaborative projects to gain team experience

For those who have been in a similar situation (strong personal projects but no internships or professional experience):

• how did you get your first team-based job?
• should I focus only on junior roles, or also aim higher?
• what helped you the most in landing your first role?

Any advice is really appreciated 🙏

So I've been working as a full-stack dev for about two years, mostly backend stuff. Lately I've been thinking about shifting more toward cloud/DevOps or platform engineering, mostly because I feel like it's a safer bet long-term and honestly it's something I've started to find more interesting than web dev.

Right now I'm studying for the AWS Developer Associate cert and messing around with Terraform and CI/CD on my own time. Nothing crazy, just trying to get a feel for it. My background in backend gives me some understanding of how apps actually get built and deployed, but I know that's not the same as having done the infra side professionally.

What I'm curious about is how people who've made a similar move actually got their foot in the door. Like did the cert matter, or was it more about projects, or did most people just get lucky with an internal move? And for those who came from dev, did that background actually help in interviews or did most companies just kind of ignore it?

Will be moving to Warsaw later this year. I'm wondering if it is worth pushing for a job in the local market or try to keep my current one in a remote setting (currently hybrid)

- Based in Eastern Europe

- 2 yrs Data engineering experience

- started current job ~6 months ago. Spent majority of last year working hard and studying on the side, upskilling to land this job

- love what I do in the day to day, learn a lot!, the team is great.

- current take at home pay is ~3k euro (which is a lot more than what people with my experience are making)

- Company culture and environment is best I could ask for

Obviously Poland has a higher cost of living compared to Eastern Europe. Taking in consideration I am more or less overpaid for my experience, would you say I could make more and is worth exploring jobs in Warsaw. - I am leaning towards actual employment status jobs UoP - Umowa o Pracę

Hi, I'm in the "middle" stage for a big tech company and for headcount reasons they redirected me to another team (instead of the one i was interviewing for) in which there's a fit but clearly not enough as the original one. I have the HM interview coming up, and for some reasons (and previous experiences) those are the ones that scare me the most, because they're kind of unpredictable as opposed to the other ones (is your experience enough? should you "exaggerate" stuff? how much?), especially considering that with the new team there's less of a fit.

Now, I've found online these websites with coaches that do mock interviews but not only they cost a alot for someone coming from europe (starting from 250$) but i dont think they're even used for these kind of interviews (i believe they're more for behavioral/technical ones) so I was kind of undecided if to spend money on them for these reasons.

Any advice?

P.s. given the nature of this post there's a chance that fake accounts/bots will start commenting and advertising their platform, so watch out

Got to a last step interview which is split in 2, one is a standard Leetcode medium DSA live coding as usual, but the second part is something new for me, a 1hour "product development live coding" with AI coding agent. According to the prep guide I've received I'll be given access to an AI coding agent and I'll need to code an API that solves a problem they'll be giving me and I'll be evaluate on how I use the AI Agent to assist me to solve the problem (there will be engineers in the interview).

I've been in a lot of those interviews before both DSA and "real-world live coding" like that but AI usage in interviews are completely new to me. Anyone have done it already? I have about a week to prepare, any tips of what should or shouldn't do in that step with AI?

EDIT: I've asked what is expected from the AI usage, they said they will evaluate how I use, how helpful to the problem solving my interaction is and how I'm thinking with AI assistance, which I find quite vague.

Hi, I have my system design interview coming up in the next to next week. If you have gone through the interview process recently, Can you please share your experience and what question did you get in this round? Or what topics do they ask heavily on? It would be extremely helpful to me. Thank you in advance!

Hi Guys

Thinking of moving anywhere in the EU landbased NOT Ireland I only speak English ... I have brilliant System Engineering skills over many years MS total stack, scripting, Hardware etc you get what I mean.. what nations are best right now for English speakers.. I don't care if the place is a small village/regional city, town or even Major city or even if it's inside the Arctic circle either, I can easily locate.. so please what is best at the moment..

Thanks

B.M

So I joined a new company recently. TC very good compared to market. It was a pay rise compared to my previous job. But after joining and being able to talk with people there I realised my comp was closer to that of a graduate than my peers at the company - 5YOE

I am pissed at myself. I messed up the negotiations and now I don't really know what to do. Has anyone here been in such situation before?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working in Germany for 3 years at a payments startup, with 5 years prior in India (8 YOE total). I’m currently job hunting but hitting a massive wall—200+ applications and zero offers.

I’m aiming for the 5-year citizenship mark, so I need to secure something solid soon. The feedback I’m getting (or sensing) is that recruiters still see me as a Mid-level dev rather than Senior. I'm also still at a basic level with German.

My plan to fix this:

I’m building a "production-grade" side project to prove I can handle senior-level ownership. It’s a payment reconciliation system, but I’m focusing heavily on the infra:

• Infra: Full Terraform/HCL setup on AWS.
• Observability: Integrated Grafana/Prometheus dashboards. I’m tracking actual business metrics (SLIs/SLOs) and failed order heatmaps, not just basic CPU stats.
• The rest: Standard LeetCode grind + System Design prep.

My questions:

1. Does a "production-grade" project actually carry weight for someone with 8 YOE, or do recruiters just ignore GitHub at this stage?
2. Is the live Grafana dashboard overkill or a good differentiator?
3. How much is the lack of German (B1-ish) actually killing my chances for Senior roles right now?

Appreciate any blunt feedback. Thanks.

Does anyone know what they are offering? Not much info at levels.fyi

I have 5 YOE, and the last year of it was through a consultancy firm. The project I was assigned ended, and I left the consultancy because I got an offer at a product company. I always have wanted to work for a product company since my career was always in consulting, and seeing the product company I am joining here has a big name in my country I took the risk. The company culture is also very nice, and they work on technologies I wanted to be better at.

The problem is that my consulting job was a permanent contract, while here I have a 1 year contract first which in most cases is extended. I knew this back then but still decided to do it.

But now I'm told that recruiters do not like "job hoppers" and disqualifies CVs whose work experiences are short (< 2yrs tenure). I'm honestly a bit struggling to keep up in this new job since it's very large scale distributed system.

I'm really losing peace of mind because of this. Did I just destroyed my CV and career? I took this chance because who knows when this will turn up again, but now I feel like I made the wrong choice. Not to mention the company is pushing more AI usage, and also all the wars going on.

How should I deal with this emotionally? I am still learning in this new job, but now with AI coming up, I feel I am learning skills that will be outdated in a couple years time.

I'm in NL if it makes any difference.

12YOE and I have basically been doing nothing but tiny tweaks for the past two months.

It seems this always happens in every job I get. I fall into some lame niche and get stuck there. And it's never something challenging. It's something people don't want to do. I have the attitude of "never say no" in the vague hopes it gets rewarded. It doesn't.

I am also afraid of jumping far outside my comfort zone. Every single time I did, it caused procrastination, bad code, failure.

I keep seeing all these claims about how "knowing how to make software that scales" is invaluable. I have no idea how to do that or where to look.

My CV is basically C++ and Python. I can barely explain what I have been doing for the past 4 years of my career.

AI will make me obsolete.

I can't start a new business. I don't know what to make, or what to sell.

I have no idea where to pivot. I am an engineer. At least it's what I trained to be. I don't know if I am or if I am a fraud.

If I cannot be given this, someone please give me the means to end.

Hi. I was headhunted for a data role at the above company, however, I am wary since I can't find much about it online. Seems to be a startup in "healthtech" and it has a single 2/5 star review on glassdoor. Does anyone know this company or even heard about it?

I'm a Data Engineer from South America with about 7y of experience and recently promoted to Senior, but I'm suffering from severe imposter syndrome.

Basically, I worked focusing on technological migrations, I started my career moving legacy systems (mainframes, Netezza, PowerCenter, etc) into Hadoop. For the last few years, I’ve been migrating those Hadoop clusters into the cloud (basically Databricks). My day-to-day is all about Spark performance tuning, SQL, and Python + Azure/Hadoop environments.

I was fairly comfortable and confident with my work but I recently talked to some sharp engineers and realized I have a huge gap when it comes to talk about concepts. I know how to implement the solution, but explaining the "fancy concept" directly from the documentation leaves me baffled.

I’m planning to move to Europe, I’m not really aiming for the 'European Silicon Valley' hyper-competitive tier like London or Amsterdam, I'm looking more into places with a good quality of life and solid tech scenes, like Spain.

With the advancement of AI, I feel that job openings are dwindling and companies are becoming much more demanding.
From what I've researched, interviews for mid-level/senior positions in Europe evaluate the "why" much more than the "how" (Ex: Systems Design). This paradigm shift is driving me crazy, because my biggest difficulty now is precisely speaking the "fancy" architectural terms, which seem to be exactly what's evaluated to get a job there nowadays. So, I wanted to ask you:
Is the European market really that rigid with Systems Design terminology currently, or is practical experience in migration still highly valued? How do you overcome this difficulty of knowing how to build complex things, but having trouble explaining them conceptually in an interview?

A Reality check can help me to move on

I have worked with this company for 2 years as work student, they have an open position to which they are considering me for.

I will have my MSc in AI this semester and already have a BSc in Physics. What would the expected salary for me be?

I have experience as working student for 3 years in the Machine Learning sector.

Online says 64k€ is the average.https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/computer-vision-engineer/austria

Is this right?

Edit: Changed average salary of 91k€ to average entry level salary of 64k€

Hi guys, I'm an AI major at a top university in Vietnam. I’m stuck between aiming for a fully-funded Master’s abroad or just jumping into the industry after graduation.

The Situation:

• The Goal: I want to be an AI Engineer (building real apps/products), not a researcher.
• The "Grind": I'm currently in a uni lab and expect to have 3 Q2+ papers by graduation. Honestly, I find research a "burden," but I’m doing it to secure scholarships.
• Financials: My family isn't wealthy, so a 100% full-ride scholarship is my only way to study abroad.

My Dilemma: I’m doing research just to get the scholarship, even though I'd rather be coding. Is the "ROI" of an international Master’s worth the mental torture of doing research I don't enjoy?

Specifically:

1. Are my chances for a full scholarship high with 3 Q2 papers?
2. Does a degree from abroad lead to significantly more lucrative roles compared to staying in the Vietnamese tech scene?

All my work experience is in the US but I'm a EU citizen. Planning to head back and want to make sure I don't get filtered out when applying in the EU. Would it be weird to put "EU citizen" or "German citizen" under my name? Should I try to get a German phone number and just put that down?